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Food trailer serves up healthy fare

Published 3:29 p.m. ET July 1, 2015

Customer Lauren Wiltsey talks with Lindsay Salters as they wait for two dozen honey gingersnap cookies to come out of the oven at the My Little Honey Pot organic foods trailer serving customers this day at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Brighton Lake Road in Brighton. Wiltsey says that a honey gingersnap cookie has become a near daily habit since the business has come to the area.(Photo: Alan Ward/Livingston Daily)

Who knew eating lunch purchased from a food trailer could be so good for you?

Since September, My Little Honey Pot in Brighton has been serving up freshly prepared vegetarian dishes made from organic ingredients five days a week.

The 16-by-8-foot yellow trailer is open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays in a parking lot at 522 E. Grand River Ave.

It is owned and operated by Lindsay Salters and Jarrett Burke. Salters prepares pizza, tostadas, lasagna, egg rolls, muffins, desserts and more in the trailer’s kitchen using organic ingredients and produce grown on the couple’s small farm in Gregory.

Burke said the food served at My Little Honey Pot is 100 percent free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and 80 percent organic.

For years Burke and Salters, both 27, have been studying nutrition and learning about chemicals, preservatives and other ingredients that go into the food people eat.

“There are a lot of unsafe things in our food supply,” Burke said. “Our customers are getting something special when they get our food. … It has nothing harmful. Food shouldn’t be harmful.”

Salters spends her days cooking in the custom-made trailer, which has a convection oven, a stove, a commercial refrigerator, a bread maker and a restaurant-style sink.

“I make everything right here,” she said.

When she and Burke began changing how they eat and think about food, Salters had to basically learn how to cook all over again.

“She had to kind of start completely from the beginning,” Burke said. “No more processed foods, no more things from boxes, stuff like that. We look at all the labels, analyze every ingredient.”

“It was all self-taught,” Salters said. “I pretty much just started experimenting with spices and fresh produce.”

Burke grows zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, greens, kale, spinach, chard and more on their 4-acre microfarm. They also are beekeepers and sell pints and quarts of raw honey out of the trailer.

The parking lot at Grand River Avenue and Brighton Lake Road was an ideal location for My Little Honey Pot, Burke said.

“We talked to some local businesses, and they said they would love to have a healthier food option right next door,” he said. “We knew something like this could be successful in a place like Ann Arbor, but we really like Brighton a lot and just wanted to be here. We also felt that Brighton was ready for this type of business.

“We really care about healing our local community, and we think we can do that with our food. Food is where it all starts.”

Burke and Salters are avid runners and take the trailer to races, farmers markets, flea markets and businesses where they cater events.

“We are mobile. We can take it wherever there is a demand for healthy food,” Burke said.

At a glance

My Little Honey Pot serves vegetarian fare made from mostly organic ingredients. The food trailer is open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays in a parking lot at 522 E. Grand River Ave. in Brighton, near Michele’s Salon & Day Spa. For more information, call 517-209-7506 or visit http://www.mylittlehoneypot.com. Check out the My Little Honey Pot Facebook page to see daily menu offerings.